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From: bkc@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Brad Clements)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM SCRIPT Formatter
Message-ID: <552@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 88 17:07:04 GMT
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From article <1294@ntmtka.UUCP>, by mike@ntmtka.UUCP (Mike Tietel):
> Does anyone know of a program for the PC which does IBM mainfame
> SCRIPT formatting?  How about a DOS version of nroff which would
> allow macro definitions for the SCRIPT commands?

I know of a program call SCRIMPT, a nearly complete PC implementation
of Waterloo SCRIPT.

It currently has over 50 drivers for various printers, adding
another printer is easy, as all drivers are ascii text. It
also supports PostScript output.

All that's missing, as far as I know, is multiple column support.
It does not have a GML library, though it supports GML tags
and a GML library will probably be written some day.

Currently it is in beta test, has over 150 pages of documentation
with another 150 to go. I imagine it will be released for sale
some day soon, when the documentation is finished. It has been
tested by many people (myself included) and several beta sites.

It is written in C, and can be, and probably will be, ported to
other systems if there is a market.

I'm not sure how it will be priced, probably around $100 or so; with
generous provisions for corporate and educational site licensing.

You can contact the author directly, or myself for further information.
Author: Robert Barringer
	Mill Street Software
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